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Floor Statement of Ranking Member Grassley of Iowa
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act
Thursday, April 10, 2014
25 years ago today, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 was signed into law. To mark that anniversary, I wanted to come...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the reported resignation of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
“Anybody put in charge of Obamacare would be set up to fail. Secretary Sebelius was asked to promote something unready, poorly...
WASHINGTON – On the 25th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act, Senator Chuck Grassley is announcing his plans to create a Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus.
Grassley said he’s creating the caucus to build a coalition of like-minded Senators who can help bring attention to the need for ongoing whistleblower protections. Over the...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement about the status of patent legislation in the committee.
“Judiciary Committee members on both sides of the aisle have been working in good faith to reach an agreement. It’s a time-consuming and challenging process that will result in a much better...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the mark-up of the patent bill was delayed until Thursday.
“Judiciary Committee members are working in good faith to reach an agreement that addresses concerns from the many sides of the issues. We’re not there yet. Sometimes, it takes more time...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah are seeking details of the federal government’s role in overseeing and offering help to troubled state health care exchanges.
“While HHS's decision to extend the open enrollment period allows states extra time to fix technical glitches, it is...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
The Smarter Sentencing Act
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Mr/Mm President, there are reports that after we return, either from this break or the next, the Senate may take up the so-called Smarter Sentencing Act. I rise today to start discussing this bill with...
WASHINGTON -- Senator Grassley said that important testimony was given this morning in Washington in support of advanced biofuels.
A cellulosic ethanol plant under construction in Nevada, Iowa, was featured in testimony from DuPont Industrial Biosciences. The role domestically produced, advanced biofuels...
WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the decision made by political appointees at the U.S. Department of Justice to make several of the grants administered by the Office on Violence Against Women...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the IRS to account for the status of several important oversight measures for nonprofit hospitals enacted in 2010. Grassley co-authored the provisions imposing standards for the tax exemption of nonprofit hospitals for the first time.
“These reforms...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, the National Sleep Foundation, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Hannah Morgan Fairfield of Coralville has received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., for the 2014-2015 school year.
Fairfield is the daughter of Cathy and Clare John Fairfield of Coralville. She will graduate in May...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the Internal Revenue Service’s annual whistleblower report to Congress about agency progress in implementing and using new incentives for whistleblowers to come forward on tax fraud. Grassley authored the 2006 whistleblower improvements.
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WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold five town hall meetings in Iowa during the week of April 14 as part of his annual 99-county tour.
Grassley has held a meeting in each of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate.
On April...
WASHINGTON – Eleven U.S. senators signed a letter led by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today asking Senate appropriators to block the use of funding to the Education Department to promote the Common Core education standards. The senators wrote a letter asking for appropriations legislative language “to restore state...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are long-time advocates for transparency in medicine and co-authors of the Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act (Medicare DATA Act).
Grassley and Wyden made the following comments on the announcement today from...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today advanced a provision to help small businesses access a tax benefit usually associated with large companies.
“The research and development tax credit is popular with established companies that use it to innovate and create jobs,” Grassley said. “It’s only...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa secured renewal of expired wind energy tax provisions in a tax measure passed out of a key committee today. The tax package also includes a reinstatement of a tax incentive for domestic biodiesel, another long-time Grassley priority.
“Renewable energy...
